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Nothing is beautiful and true. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein
A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile. -- Helena Christensen
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before. -- Peter Carey
And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays. -- Mark Rylance
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly. -- Eduard Hanslick
And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true. -- Keanu Reeves
This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful. -- Timothy Radcliffe
Style is about fun. True style is not about having a closet full of expensive and beautiful things - it is instead about knowing when, where, and how to utilize your collection. -- Nina Garcia
All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience. -- Penelope Cruz
The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced. -- Paulina Porizkova
Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political punditry, celebrity gossip, sports gossip, or endless photographs of beautiful houses, food, or clothes. -- Gretchen Rubin
Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true. -- Delta Burke
I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true. -- Francis Ford Coppola
With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there. -- Hailee Steinfeld
Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us. -- Tracee Ellis Ross
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world. -- Ann Voskamp
I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too. -- Salman Rushdie
The thing about storytelling is it's very stripped down; it's very much at the core of 'I'm a person and I'm just telling you this thing, and I need you to trust me and believe that what I'm saying is true, and if you believe that what I'm saying is true then we are connected to each other.' I think there's something really beautiful about that. -- Mike Birbiglia
If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true. -- Mark Twain
True beauty is a beautiful character shinning through. -- TemitOpe Ibrahim
What is really beautiful must always be true. -- Stendhal
Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. -- John Ruskin
We must not only be True. We must be Beautiful. -- Francis Schaeffer
If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true. -- John Keats
Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat. -- Jean Anouilh
Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by. -- Dianna Agron
It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful. -- Joseph Joubert
It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function. -- Giannina Braschi
Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true. -- Spencer W. Kimball
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring. -- Alexandre Dumas
True friends are like diamonds "? bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. -- Nicole Richie
The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher. -- Kedar Joshi
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art. -- George Sand
As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true. -- Laurie Anderson
Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41) -- Edward Abbey
True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things. -- Mary Howitt
A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage. -- Edward Abbey
one of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood -- Anonymous
Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit ... -- Margaret Oliphant
Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true. -- Charles Baudelaire
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty. -- Justina Chen
When humans come together with a true spirit of dealing with the mystery collaboratively, it's incredibly beautiful. -- Ram Dass
Whoever is loved is beautiful, but the opposite is not true, that whoever is beautiful is loved. -- Rumi
When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury. -- Reed Krakoff
Every woman is beautiful so every woman deserves to be loved and respected by a true man -- Mary Rose Magnaye
My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love. -- Jess C Scott
Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay! -- Lewis Carroll
Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you. -- Eminem
The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries. -- Shonda Rhimes
Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful. -- Plato
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true. -- William Ralph Inge
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. -- William Ralph Inge
Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails. -- Edward Burne-Jones
If you can imagine it, you can create it. That beautiful world you dream about, needs positive action to come true. -- Leon Brown
This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose. -- Antonin Artaud
The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true. -- Julian Fellowes
The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity. -- Kathryn Jean Lopez
When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment. -- Emmylou Harris
For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust. -- George Stillman Hillard
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart. -- Waylon Jennings
It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful. -- Ivan Panin
No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true. -- John Ruskin
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nothing can change that. -- Amy Davis
But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself. -- Roy DeCarava
Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God! -- Pope Francis
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it. -- William Ralph Inge
As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life. -- Nhat Hanh
The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. -- Golda Meir
Dreams don't "come true". Dreams get "made true". You have the power to get up, execute and make beautiful results happen, day by valuable day. -- Robin Sharma
To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason. -- Johann Gottfried Herder
Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes? -- Ken Wilber
We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How dare the world define beauty. God defined beauty when he made you! You are beautiful, you are a true beauty just the way you are! -- Rachel Hamilton
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. -- Tom Stoppard
Don't be sad and don't give up on your dreams. Dreams will come true one day. There's no person as beautiful as a person who dreams -- Kim Him-chan
If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could. -- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Marian Palaia is a writer of startling grace and sensuous lyricism - reading her, you feel as if you've never heard language this beautiful and this true. -- Jonis Agee
What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit. -- Leonard Cohen
No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind. -- Dalai Lama
True love will triumph in the end"?which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have. -- John Green
Aloneness is a gift. A beautiful gift to the human soul. True and consistent satisfaction comes from the bond you form with yourself. Nobody else is a constant -- Mohadesa Najumi
There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. -- Steve Maraboli
If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God. -- Rob Bell
You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue. -- Mitch Albom
A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world. -- Georg Hermes
All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine. -- Elizabeth Scott
And life takes placeinside us, with the eternal lightof an ecstatic daywhich is going on somewhere else.It is a beautiful thing,something true and not yet real, beautiful!" -- Juan Ramon Jimenez
Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change! -- Vivienne Westwood

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